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- What is it?
- A Marquee is a rectangular banner region of moving/scrolling text
allowing many different movement behaviors.
- Attributes
- Align
- 2 | 3 | 3.2 | IE2 | M | N
- Required? No
- Description:
Specifies where the text around the marquee should align vertically
relative to the marquee.
- Values: Top
[DEFAULT] |
Middle | Bottom
- Behavior
- 2 | 3 | 3.2 | IE2 | M | N
- Required? No
- Description:
Specifies how the Marquee text should move.
- Values:
Scroll
[DEFAULT - Text enters on one
side of the screen and travels to the opposite side and
cycles repeatedly from where it started]
Slide
[marquee enters from one side of the screen and comes to stop at
the opposite side]
Alternate
[marquee bounces from one side of the screen to the other.]
- BGColor
- 2 | 3 | 3.2 | IE2 | M | N
- Required? No
- Description:
Indicates a background color to be used for the Marquee text box.
- Values: Either an
RGB triplet or a special
Color name
- Direction
- 2 | 3 | 3.2 | IE2 | M | N
- Required? No
- Description:
Specifies the direction the Marquee text should scroll.
- Values:
Left [DEFAULT] |
Right
- Height
- 2 | 3 | 3.2 | IE2 | M | N
- Required? No
- Description:
Specifies the height of the Marquee box. Default value is the height
of the contained text.
- Values:
Positive integer values representing the pixel height of the marquee
box or a percentage of the screen height.
- HSpace
- 2 | 3 | 3.2 | IE2 | M | N
- Required? No
- Description:
Specifies values for the left and right spacing margins for the outside
of the Marquee.
- Values:
Specified in positive integer pixel amounts. Default is 0.
- Loop
- 2 | 3 | 3.2 | IE2 | M | N
- Required? No
- Description:
Specifies how many times the Marquee display will cycle.
- Values:
A positive integer N times, or
INFINITE (-1)
[DEFAULT]
- ScrollAmount
- 2 | 3 | 3.2 | IE2 | M | N
- Required? No
- Description:
This attribute specifies the amount of space that exists horizontally
between each successive draw of Marquee text.
- Values: Positive integer pixel amounts.
- ScrollDelay
- 2 | 3 | 3.2 | IE2 | M | N
- Required? No
- Description:
Specifies the number of milliseconds between each successive draw
of Marquee text.
- Values:
Values are specified in positive integer millisecond amounts.
- VSpace
- 2 | 3 | 3.2 | IE2 | M | N
- Required? No
- Description:
Specifies values for the top and bottom spacing margins for the outside
of the Marquee.
- Values:
Specified in positive integer pixel amounts. Default value is 0.
- Width
- 2 | 3 | 3.2 | IE2 | M | N
- Required? No
- Description:
Specifies the width of the Marquee box. Default value is the width of
the screen.
- Values:
Positive integer values representing the pixel height of the marquee
box or a percentage of the screen height.
Style Sheet Attributes
[More on Cascading Style Sheets]
- Class
- 2 | 3
| 3.2 | IE3B1
| M | N
- Required? No
- Description:
This represents an assigned semantic classification grouping(s) for the
current tag.
- Values:
Given as a comma separated list of alphanumeric characters. Class names
may contain spaces (multiple consecutive spaces treated as a single
space.)
- ID
- 2 | 3
| 3.2 | IE3B1
| M | N
- Required? No
- Description:
This assigns an alpha-numeric identifier that is unique
to this tag instance. Style sheets may use this attribute to reference
the current instance of this tag. Hyperlinks may also use this identifier
to serve as a destination.
- Values:
An alphanumeric string - initial character must be a letter followed
by alphabetic characters, digits, "-" or "."
characters. The allowable set of alpha-characters is restricted to the
A-Z and a-z set.
- Style
- 2 | 3
| 3.2 | IE3B1
| M | N
- Required? No
- Description:
This attribute is a text string that provides rendering style
information for the current tag.
- Values:
Please see the description of
inline styles for more
information on how to use this attribute and its
possible values.
- Example
- <marquee ALIGN="Top" LOOP="infinite"BEHAVIOR="slide" BGCOLOR="#FF0000"DIRECTION="left" HEIGHT=30 WIDTH=200>
Marquee Sliding Text Example
</marquee>
- Parent Model
-
%Anchors% |
%Virtual
Formatting% |
%Physical
Formatting% |
%Block Format
Parent% |
%Multimedia
Parent% |
<Body> |
<Address> |
<Basefont> |
<Heading> |
<Marquee>
- Content Model
- %Text% |
%Anchors% |
%Virtual Formatting% |
%Physical Formatting% |
%Line Break Content% |
%Multimedia Content%
Tips & Tricks
- Because only Internet Explorer supports this tag, its use is not
recommended.
- Many of the effects of this tag can be replicated with Java or
Javascript which already has wider support than Marquee. In situations
where Marquee support is guaranteed, it does represent a MUCH more
compact method of representation to produce moving text than Java
code would be.
- There is no direct way to control the speed at which a bit of
Marquee text travels. The ScrollAmount and ScrollDelay tags must be
used in conjunction to create this effect and their use is not intuitive.
Browser Peculiarities
- The only peculiarity to report is that this is a proprietary tag
in Internet Explorer (versions 2.0 and above) and has support in no
other browser.
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